Posted by: Jim on: 03/27/2016 07:46 PM

3D Inventor makes the first 3D Printed digital sundial. Here's how.

Just saw this by inventor Julian Coyne or Mojoptix- a 3D Printed Digital Sundial. In a nutshell, a typical sun dial cast a shadow on the ground and you can then get a pretty descent approximate time of day based on the angle of the shadow. Mr. Coyne using a 3D printer, OpenSCADand his awesome ingenuity figured out how to design a sundial so that the shadows and light combine to project actual time of day on the ground, in digital format.

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